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Bushcamp Checklist African Broadbill ___ Lesser Grey Shrike ___ Flappet Lark ___ Black-backed Puffback ___ Dusky Lark ___ Brown-crowned Tchagra ___ Red-capped lark ___ Black-crowned Tchagra ___ Sand Martin ___ Tropical Boubou ___ Brown-throated Martin ___ Brubru ___ The Bushcamp Company Banded Martin ___ Orange-breasted Bush Shrike ___ Barn Swallow (European) ___ Grey-headed Bush Shrike ___ South Luangwa National Park Wire-tailed Swallow ___ White Helmet Shrike ___ Lesser Striped Swallow ___ Retz’s Helmet Shrike (Red-billed) ___ Common House Martin ___ Greater Blue-eared Starling ___ African Pied Wagtail ___ Meves’s Starling (Long-tailed) ___ African Pipit (Grassveld) ___ Violet-backed Starling (Plum-coloured) ___ Checklist of Common Woodland Pipit ___ Wattled Starling ___ Plain-backed Pipit ___ Yellow-billed Oxpecker ___ Birds & Mammals Red-billed Oxpecker ___ Buffy Pipit ___ Compiled by Derek Solomon Black Cuckooshrike ___ Amethyst Sunbird (Black) ___ Fork-tailed Drongo ___ Scarlet-chested Sunbird ___ African Golden Oriole ___ Collared Sunbird ___ Black-headed Oriole ___ White-bellied Sunbird ___ Pied Crow ___ Southern Grey-headed Sparrow ___ Southern Black Tit ___ Yellow-throated Petronia (Sparrow) ___ Arrow-marked Babbler ___ Red-billed Buffalo Weaver ___ Dark-capped Bulbul (Black-eyed) ___ White-browed Sparrow Weaver ___ Terrestrial Brownbul ___ Golden Weaver ___ Yellow-bellied Greenbul ___ Spectacled Weaver ___ Eastern Nicator (Yellow-spotted) ___ Village Weaver ___ White-browed Robin-chat (Heuglin’s) ___ Southern Masked Weaver (African) ___ Collared Palm Thrush ___ Lesser Masked Weaver ___ Thrush Nightingale ___ Red-headed Weaver ___ Arnot’s Chat ___ Red-billed Quelea ___ Mammals Moustached Grass Warbler ___ Southern Red Bishop ___ Thick-tailed Bushbaby Common Duiker Sedge Warbler ___ Black-winged Bishop (Fire-crowned) ___ Yellow Baboon Wild Dog Eurasian Reed Warbler ___ White-winged Widowbird ___ Vervet Monkey Honey Badger Marsh Warbler (European) ___ Green-winged Pytilia (Melba Finch) ___ 4-toed Elephant Shrew African Civet Great Reed Warbler ___ Red-billed Firefinch ___ Crawshay’s Zebra Large-spotted Genet Willow Warbler ___ Jameson’s Firefinch ___ Warthog Bushy-tailed Mongoose Red-faced Cisticola ___ Bronze Mannikin ___ Hippopotomus Slender Mongoose Neddicky ___ Blue Waxbill ___ Thornicroft’s Giraffe White-tailed Mongoose Rattling Cisticola ___ Village Indigobird (Steel-blue Widow) ___ Elephant Banded Mongoose Fan-tailed Cisticola ___ Purple Indigobird (Widow Finch) ___ Buffalo Spotted Hyaena Yellow-breasted Apalis ___ Eastern Paradise Whydah ___ Eland Leopard Tawny-flanked Prinia ___ Yellow-fronted Canary ___ Greater Kudu Lion Yellow-bellied Eremomela ___ Bushbuck Serval Green-capped Eremomela ___ Additional Species Seen: ___ Waterbuck Aardvark Long-billed Crombec ___ 1 ___ Puku Scrub Hare Grey-backed Camaroptera (Bleating Warbler) ___ 2 ___ Impala Porcupine Southern Black Flycatcher ___ 3 ___ Sharpe’s Grysbok Ashy Flycatcher ___ 4 ___ Spotted Flycatcher ___ 5 ___ Reptiles African Paradise Flycatcher ___ 6 ___ Nile Crocodile Water Monitor Chinspot Batis ___ 7 ___ Black-throated Wattlle-eye ___ 8 ___ Red-backed Shrike ___ African Darter ___ Lanner Falcon ___ Common Cuckoo (Eurasian) ___ Reed Cormorant ___ Helmeted Guineafowl ___ Black Coucal ___ Hamerkop ___ Swainson’s Spurfowl (Francolin) ___ Senegal Coucal ___ Goliath Heron ___ Red-necked Spurfowl (Francolin) ___ White-browed Coucal ___ Grey Heron ___ Harlequin Quail ___ African Wood Owl ___ Black-headed Heron ___ African Crake ___ Pel’s Fishing Owl ___ Great White Egret ___ Black Crake ___ Verreaux’s Eagle Owl (Giant) ___ Cattle Egret ___ Allen’s Gallinule (Lesser) ___ African Scops Owl ___ Squacco Heron ___ Grey Crowned Crane ___ Pearl-spotted Owlet ___ Green-backed Heron ___ African Jacana ___ Barred Owlet ___ Dwarf Bittern ___ Water Thick-knee (Dikkop) ___ Fiery-necked Nightjar ___ African Spoonbill ___ Temminck’s Courser ___ Square-tailed Nightjar (Mozambique) ___ African Sacred Ibis ___ Three-banded Courser ___ Pennant-winged Nightjar ___ Hadeda Ibis ___ Bronze-winged Courser ___ African Palm Swift ___ Marabou Stork ___ Kittlitz’s Plover ___ Little Swift ___ Saddle-billed Stork ___ White-fronted Plover ___ Horus Swift ___ African Openbill ___ Three-banded Plover ___ White-rumped Swift ___ Woolly-necked Stork ___ Blacksmith Lapwing (Plover) ___ Common Swift ___ Abdim’s Stork ___ White-headed Lapwing (White-crowned) ___ Red-faced Mousebird ___ White Stork ___ African Wattled Lapwing (Plover) ___ Narina Trogon ___ Yellow-billed Stork ___ Crowned Lapwing (Plover) ___ African Hoopoe ___ White-faced Duck ___ Greater Painted Snipe ___ Green Wood-hoopoe (Red-billed) ___ Egyptian Goose ___ African Snipe (Ethiopian) ___ Common Scimitarbill ___ Spur-winged Goose ___ Black-winged Stilt ___ Malachite Kingfisher ___ Comb Duck (Knob-billed) ___ Marsh Sandpiper ___ African Pygmy Kingfisher ___ Red-billed Teal ___ Common Greenshank ___ Grey-headed Kingfisher ___ Black-shouldered Kite ___ Ruff ___ Woodland Kingfisher ___ Yellow-billed Kite ___ Wood Sandpiper ___ Brown-hooded Kingfisher ___ African Fish Eagle ___ Common Sandpiper ___ Striped Kingfisher ___ Hooded Vulture ___ Curlew Sandpiper ___ Giant Kingfisher ___ Lappet-faced Vulture ___ Little Stint ___ Pied Kingfisher ___ White-headed Vulture ___ African Skimmer ___ Broad-billed Roller ___ White-backed Vulture ___ Double-banded Sandgrouse ___ Lilac-breasted Roller ___ Brown Snake Eagle ___ Red-eyed Dove ___ Racket-tailed Roller ___ Western Banded Snake Eagle ___ African Mourning Dove ___ Southern Carmine Bee-eater ___ Bateleur ___ Cape Turtle Dove ___ Swallow-tailed Bee-eater ___ African Marsh Harrier ___ Laughing Dove ___ Little Bee-eater ___ African Harrier Hawk (Gymnogene) ___ African Green Pigeon ___ European Bee-eater ___ Lizard Buzzard ___ Emerald-spotted Wood Dove ___ White-fronted Bee-eater ___ Gabar Goshawk ___ Namaqua Dove ___ Blue-cheeked Bee-eater ___ Dark Chanting Goshawk ___ Brown-necked Parrot ___ Southern Ground Hornbill ___ African Goshawk ___ Meyer’s Parrot ___ Southern Red-billed Hornbill ___ Ovambo Sparrowhawk ___ Lilian’s Lovebird ___ Crowned Hornbill ___ Shikra (Little Banded Goshawk) ___ Purple-crested Turaco (Lourie) ___ African Grey Hornbill ___ Little Sparrowhawk ___ Grey Go-away Bird (Lourie) ___ Trumpeter Hornbill ___ Lesser Spotted Eagle ___ Diderick Cuckoo ___ Black-collared Barbet ___ Steppe Eagle ___ Klaas’s Cuckoo ___ Crested Barbet ___ Tawny Eagle ___ African Emerald Cuckoo ___ Greater Honeyguide ___ Wahlberg’s Eagle ___ Jacobin Cuckoo ___ Lesser Honeyguide ___ African Hawk Eagle ___ Levaillant’s Cuckoo (Striped) ___ Bennett’s Woodpecker ___ Ayres’ Hawk Eagle ___ Great Spotted Cuckoo ___ Golden-tailed Woodpecker ___ Long-crested Eagle ___ Red-chested Cuckoo ___ Cardinal Woodpecker ___ Martial Eagle ___ Black Cuckoo ___ Beared Woodpecker ___ Dickinson’s Kestrel ___ African Cuckoo ___ African Pitta ___ Eurasian 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